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September 2011 Entries

I've taken to using NUnit's constraint model for my unit tests, as I find it a great way to write readable tests which state exactly what they prove. NUnit has lots of built-in Constraints, but its PredicateConstraint doesn't return very helpful error messages; here's a friendlier version, which does.

The ViewModels in my current project had got quite complex; as well as properties copied from model objects, they increasingly had flags used by Views to know whether to render links or sub-sections. The logic which set these properties was bloating Controllers, so I factored it out into objects which populate all non-editable properties of a ViewModel; ViewModelBuilders. Here's how :)